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English Language First Woman
1,347 words[... ] a Devil on't the Woman damns the Poet. -- Aphra Behn, Preface to The Lucky Chance Aphra Behn (1640 - 1689) was not the first woman writer; neither was she the only woman writer of her day. But Aphra Behn holds the singular distinction of being the first professional woman writer in the English language. That's right, ladies -- Aphra Behn was the first woman writer who did it for money. It was a natural choice for this young woman, a recent spy for the crown and a widow at the age of 26, t...
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Star Crossed Lovers Romeo Kills
989 wordstwo lovers depicted in literature, music, dance, and theatre and best known from a play (1594 - 95) written by William Shakespeare. The appeal of the young hero and heroine -- whose families, the Montague's and Capulets, respectively, are implacable enemies -- is such that they have become, in the popular imagination, the representative type of star-crossed lovers. Shakespeare's principal source for the plot was The Tragic all History of Romeo and Juliet (1562), a long narrative poem by the Engl...
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Commedia Dell Arte Stock Characters
949 wordsCommedia dell " arte is a truly popular form of theatre - of the people, by the people, for the people. Discuss this statement with specific examples of Commedia dell " arte scenarios, stock characters, performance features and circumstances. Commedia dell " arte is definitely an artform centred on people and their world. Although its origins are hazy due to the illiteracy of its first performers and audience, it is believed to have stemmed from the carnivals in Italy during the sixteenth centur...
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William Shakespeare Human Beings
556 wordsWilliam Shakespeare is customary regarded to be the finest dramatist the world has ever seen and the greatest poet who has created his plays in the English language. Besides, Shakespeare has been the worlds most famous author. No other writers works have been published so many times or read so broadly in so many places. Shakespeare knew human nature as few other writers have. He could notice in a particular dramatic case the qualities that refer to all human beings. He could thus produce charact...
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Believed That People Enlightenment Thinkers
1,047 wordsThe "Enlightenment" or the "Age of Realization" was an age of great advancement and reform for all of Europe and beyond. Great advancements were being made in the fields of science, philosophy, mathematics, and logic. Most people attribute these achievements to the social critics of that time, also known as the philosophes. These philosophes were controversial thinkers and pioneered the intellectual movements of the 1700 's. They stood up for what they believed in, although they were constantly ...
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Cordelia Street Work Paul Pauls
562 wordsPauls Case, by Willa Cather, is about an insolent teenage boy who lives completely in a fantasy world. Some may say that a little fantasy never hurt anyone, but Paul takes his dreaming over the line. In Pauls mind, something registers as either extraordinary or wretched, and never is there any medium. This lack of an ability to comprehend reality is exactly what separates Paul from any other normal teenager. Paul lives on Cordelia Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, along with his father and sis...
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Portrayed Their Characters Scene Of The Performance Audience
1,007 wordsThis paper is a critique of a production of Never the Sinner, a murder drama written by John Logan, which was performed and produced by the Department of Theatre and Dance at E. S. Strother Theatre located on the campus of Ball State University. Director Judy E. Yordon captures the viciousness and brutality of the murder of an innocent, young boy in this dramatic account of a homicide at the hands of two young men who are intertwined in a dark, sexual relationship. During the murder and trial of...
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Guildenstern Are Dead Interpretation Of Dreams
1,562 words... murder of Old Hamlet was an impulse-, id-driven act, it had rational consequences. Gertrude feeds him with the wealth of the country. Freud's ideas about theatre, and its relation to dreams is another theme that is predominant in Hamlet. In Art & Literature, he explores the idea that creative literature is in essence the same as normal dreams, the expression of wish fulfillment. There are a number of similarities between a play and a dream. Both take place in a darkened environment, the firs...
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1920 And 1930 Audiences Attention
1,080 wordsCinematic Montage One major creative device at the editors disposal is the montage, a series of images and sounds joined only by internal relationships. Montage is a Soviet term derived from the French verb money, to assemble. Practically speaking, a cinematic montage is the process of juxtaposing images through time. Generally, the montage combines the techniques for distorting time and combining images and visuals in order to create special moods. There are several basic types of montage. 1. T...
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David Henry Hwang Sound Of A Voice Flowers
814 wordsThe idea of silence plays significant role in David Henry Hwang's play "The Sound of a Voice." The theme of visitors, who turned into flowers and the lack of communication were the key-factor that caused womans death. The sound of a voice means the presence of another person. II. The symbol of shakuhachi emphasizes the nothingness of immortality in comparison to humans company. David Henry Hwang's "The Sound of a Voice" at his most minimal play, with short lines of dialogue. The story is told in...
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San Diego Pro Bowl
864 wordsThomas Smith February 16, 2001 Mr. Younger Phys Ed For this paper, I have chosen to select Junior Seau as my topic. He is an All-Pro linebacker for the San Diego Chargers. Off the field, he is committed to tackling the challenges that the youth of today encounter. He does this through the Junior Seau Foundation. Junior was born in the American Samoa on January 19, 1969, and was the 5 th of 7 children. He grew up in Oceanside, California. Drugs, gangs, and violence surrounded him while he was gro...
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High Social Status Aristotle
836 wordsThe play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde definitely proved itself to be? A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. ? I saw the play at Lindenwood University? s Jelkyl Theatre. The play was long, in a three-act structure, yet it moved along at a good pace. They did a nice job of preparing the audience, there was an interesting lobby display with sketches of each of the costumes with fabric samples and they played music to fit the time period before the show began. The first of Aristotle...
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Actors Wore Comic Actors Chorus
479 wordsGreek tragedy and comedy originated with the chorus, the most important part of the performance space was the orchestra, which means a place for dancing (orthosis). A typical tragic Greek chorus was a group of some twelve to fifteen masked men just about to enter military service after some years of training (Athenians were taught to sing and dance from a very early age. ) An old comedic chorus consisted of up to twenty four men. The effort of dancing and singing through three tragedies and a sa...
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Couldn T Four Years
650 words# 3 Discuss your goals for the next four years and comment on your post-college plans. ? Next stop, 66 th Street and Lincoln Center, ? bellowed the cracked voice of the conductor over the loudspeaker. Those words rang in my ear like the notes of a familiar melody. Stepping off the number three train, I was immediately immersed in the scents, sounds and faces of my past. All the wonderful memories of those four years came rushing back into my mind as if they had just occurred. I was finally retur...
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York City Ballet School Of American Ballet Balanchine
948 wordsGeorge Balanchine, or originally Georgy Melitonovich Balanchivadze, a Russian-born choreographer, is recognized as one of the foremost choreographers in the history of ballet. George was among a generation of dancers who spent the years of World War 1 at the Imperial school of ballet at the Mariinsky theatre. George was the son of a composer, and he also studied music from 1921 to 1924 at the Petrograd Conservatory in St. Petersburg. As a student Balanchine had already tried choreography. His fi...
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Quot Big Make Money
1,805 wordsTheres a scene in the new musical " RENT" that may be the quintessential romantic moment of the 90 s. Roger, a struggling rock musician, and Mimi, a junkie whos a dancer at an S/M club, are having a lovers quarrel when their beepers go off and each takes out a bottle of pills. Its the signal for an " AZT break, " and suddenly they realize that theyre both HIV-positive. Clinch. Love duet. If you dont think this is romantic, consider that Jonathan Larson's sensational musical i...
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Madison Square Great Place
800 wordsIn this essay Manhattan MANHATTAN In this essay you will read about all of the wonderful things to see and do in Manhattan, New York. Manhattan is the borough that never sleeps in. Here, there are so many wonderful things to see and do places to go and you will always meet new and familiar faces here. Manhattan is a main attraction when people come to visit New York City. There are many new explorations and journeys that can be taken on this wonderful island. Even though it s a borough it is als...
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Stratford Upon Avon Shakespeare
442 wordsBiography: William Shakespeare William Shakespeare, playwright, whose work stands to be the most translated non-religious literature ever was born on April 23 rd, 1564 and was baptized the day after in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. He was the third of eight children born into the family of John Shakespeare-a well known merchant, and Mary Arden. Being the eldest son, following the customs of the time, Shakespeare should have followed in the footsteps of his father but instead after receiving...
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Russian Society Thirty Three
690 wordsA critique on Thirty Three Swoons In the play Thirty Three Swoons, which is a collection of four farces written by Anton Palovish Chekhov. The play consists of these short productions in order, Swan Song, The Bear, The Proposal, and The Wedding. Each of them their own unique plays that pokes fun on the Russian middle class. The whole production, I believed played on and made fun of a society that is not always familiar with society today. I have no knowledge of Russian society in the late 1800 s...
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Charlie Chaplin Gold Rush
306 wordsMordaunt Chaplin Chaplin? s New Gem Mordaunt Hall, a reporter from the New York Times, refers to Charlie Chaplin as a? Great host of spectators. ? In his review of Chaplin? s new film, ? The Gold Rush? . Not even the scorching heat could keep the public from seeing this spectacular flick. New Yorkers swarmed to the theatres to view the new film. The excitement of the moviegoers was abundantly present at the Mark Strand Theatre. The crowd applauded Chaplin as he took his seat in the heart of the ...
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